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Religion is of course a very curious behavior. Curious in that we have pretty much all,

had it - , meaning ,throughout out history, and of course individually we've got it,

in one form or another. The other curious and interesting aspect of religion is, variety.

But, it is kind of possible, to lump them all together, and you might find one thing

that they all have in common is that religion represents or is most clearly expressed

by, the notion of a path. So far example, in native American ( or ? ) culture it is

often referred to as the Great Red Road.

You can see this somewhat in an other human behavior, which is frequently

described as politics, and hence many people have some difficulty distinguishing

politics and religion, which is never particularly good, because the

destinations involved with some kind of political path, requires a some what

more clear and succinct destination, while that destination involved in religion

can generally be thought of as more remote.

Two examples might be helpful, so take Islam and Christianity, which I am

guessing there has been much written about, but they do seem to have

distinct destinations, one being Jesus himself, the other being more in the

direction of the Will of God. Of course, both of these directions have an

awful lot in common, and are closely related to each other. But of course,

as they say, the devil is in the details, and the details are by what means

do you arrive at your destination? Generally, I can not imagine that Uber

would be your first choice.

So in the end, not that end, but just the end of this post - you arrive at that

probably -- eternal -- question. Is the path, or the road, more or less important

than the destination?

Some background:

And as a follow up, Carl Jung spent a great deal of his life considering issues of this type

throughout his life.

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